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This is a transcription of a SiliconAngle rebroadcast of a panel discussion originally webcast from VMworld 2010. SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier MCs a panel discussion by representatives from three venture capital firms, discussing the financial market for startups. Participants are:
John Furrier, CEO, Slilcon Angle (MC)
Charles Beeler, Partner, El Dorado Ventures
Pete Sonsini, Partner, NEA
Ping Li, Partner, Accel Partners
JF: We are back in the Cube with a discussion with venture capitalists who are investing in all the hot startups.
First question, on a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate the overall climate for start-ups in cloud?
CB: Startups in cloud I would say pretty close to 7,8,9. The negative right now is more around the funding environment than the opportunities for companies. I think that as venture guys we have to look past that and look at the opportunities for the businesses. Fortunately you have three groups here who have capital to put to work so we can actually fund these things. That's the biggest challenge we see out there right now.
PS: I agree. It's definitely not is there a hot sector out there enterprise-related it's certainly cloud-related. The backdrop relates to the overall venture climate casts a pal and can effect investment a little bit. But everybody knows this is a big change in the system that creates tons of opportunities for businesses, and so everybody's very focused on it or they're missing it.
PL: I agree. I think in terms of areas of excitement, enthusiasm with entrepreneurs it's definitely 9 or 10. It's not just on the infrastructure side as well, I think if you look across our portfolio, I'm sure it's the same with Pete and Charles, three quarters of the companies are actually built on cloud infrastructure now, so there's no servers or data rooms in any of the start-ups we work with. So I think up and down the stack from the applications down to the infrastructure there's a lot of enthusiasm for what the cloud can bring.
JF: How do you guys evaluate a company today. It's so easy to fake out a VC if they're not smart about the process – throw some cloud stuff up there, making it look great, give it some voodoo. Is there a new model for evaluating an entrepreneur or start-up?
CB: For me it still comes down to the team. I don't care where they went to school, I care what they know about the market they are going after. To the extent that they are going after something in virtualization or cloud player storage pedigree matters a lot. What have they done before that shows they understand the market they're going after? I'm hoping that the entrepreneurs we back know a lot more about the market they are in than I could. If they're really good at it I'm not going to keep up on that piece of it. I just want to make sure they understand it, they understand how they fit in the ecosystem. At the stage where we invest it really is all about the team because good teams have good ideas, and they know how to pursue them.
PS: You can be aware of the trends, but you don't know everything about everything, there's no way you possibly can. So you try to narrow it down to – generally speaking its people, its markets, its business traction, its technology. At the end of the day I think it comes back to those four things most of the time, and everybody's got their own personal filter as to what they like to optimize around. I think for the deals we'll do in one of those four categories one of those four categories has to be off the charts to grab your attention to do the deal. But I think it still goes back to people, technology, markets and the passion behind the entrepreneur. Does the entrepreneur really have that privileged insight and opportunity? Do they know this market and this opportunity and how to exploit it better than everybody else? At the end of the day that is probably the most important thing. You can't know everything about everything, and you cant expect to get anywhere close to that, so you try to find those individuals who do have that key insight into the opportunity. That's how we look at it today.
PL: I agree. I think the fundamentals of what we look for in a company hasn't really changed. I think the sectors and trends, as you noted, have changed a lot. I think there's still the constant tension between features and actual categories defining break-out companies. I think when you see a new market like cloud computing, the first wave of ideas are sort of features in existing platforms, and the next generation of emerging ideas are going to be the category platform type of opportunities. So trying to parse out which is which is not an easy task. We've spent a lot of time on that.
I think the other big change is capital efficiency. I think a lot of these companies are able to get to market with a lot less capital because the tools and resources, whether it's open source products or a think like EC2S3, can really change how companies can get to market much faster. So the kind of thing we look for is if you can build it and get to market much faster let's see it rather than spending three years building and pray the market's there.
JF: The capital efficiency, the entrepreneurs that boot-strap love the cloud. they say, "Hey, I can do a data center for $20,000 in three countries." So let's talk about that. Capital efficiency's one thing, and you guys provide a lot of funding, but the momentum has always been the thing. You can be capital efficient and never make the market. Where do you guys see the most momentum in cloud-related things. We have end-user environment, the VDI stuff, some desktop, mobile obviously, middleware – that model's changing – and infrastructure, plumbing, storage. Where do you guys see the most momentum most fertile for entrepreneurs to stay, a safe harbor if you will. Do you guys see that out there?
CB: Clearly the place where you're going to see the most momentum is the closer you get to the end-user of a product, if something's getting adopted quickly and ramping quickly, if your hosted in the cloud it's a lot easier to get the plumbing, continue to deploy and meet that scale. If you look at the infrastructure, the guts that are going on, we're pretty big believers that virtual desktop is still early in terms of enterprise usage. We think it's at the point now, the technology's far enough along that it's ready to go. We think that's a market that's starting to gain momentum and when it does things will happen quickly.
I think a lot of these other areas there are still great opportunities but sometimes it's company-specific. I think that when one really figures out how to take advantage of a technology and leverage something, whether its software, infrastructure, or network, it's more the company getting it right. You've seen that today, and you mentioned some of these acquisitions. Companies that have figured that out, how to catch that wave at the right time.
PS: I think you want to get in before the momentum hits. That's really where the money is made in venture capital is getting in before the wave when they all hit. So there's certainly plenty of excitement around the cloud to spread around.
JF: Which do you like the best?
PS: I think platform-as-a-service and private cloud, there's a lot of excitement around that right now. It's kind of open field, there's huge growth in prospect ahead of it, there's no real dominant player, and the venture investors' minds kind of go crazy thinking about how big this opportunity could be without really that many proof points.
JF: So you're saying the category's not really formed yet.
PS: Yes, take private clouds as an example. There's clearly a lot of interest and talk in IT organizations around private cloud. People are talking about it, how many deployments are there? It's actually not commensurate with the hype. So you have to discount that back. So there's always going to be interest among investors in things like that, but at the end of the day you're taking a leap of faith that it will materialize, and something like that is not there yet.
JF: Well you had Data Domain at your firm. That Data Domain acquisition was a big exit. 3Par is going to HP it looks like. So there are big deals to be had.
PS: As it relates to virtualization and cloud, it's really shaking up the entire staff. We all know that. It's a big change, and all these areas are presenting huge opportunities for new businesses, and really novel technologies coming to capitalize on them. Even in traditional areas like storage – which is, you know, storage, it's boring old storage...
JF: Storage rules.
PS: Exactly – crazy things happen and there's a lot of innovation to be had as it relates to cloud. Charles knows that companies he as has the thing, so....
JF: Ping, you're on the board of Cloudera, which we are aware of. They are friends of ours in Palo Alto. They service the Hadoop platform and are commercializing it. But you have big cloud players out there like Facebook. Google. Amazon, that have a product they don't sell, they just use. So there's a whole other world of big data, and data is a big theme in this conference and the world. What is your view of the tsunami of data, as Mike Oleson would say, at Cloudera?
PL: I think it ties really well into a lot of the conversations you're having around virtualization and cloud computing because you look at what cloud computing is doing, it's actually reinventing the entire computing stack. There was mainframe, there was client-server, there was Web, and now there's cloud computing. So I think there's opportunities at all the layers of the stack. Cloudera is focused on the data layer. The big data trend you could argue started in the Web world because they were pushing most of the data when Facebook, Yahoo! And Google were collecting clickstreams and and trolling the entire Web to figure out what was relevant to different people. I think that amount of data has really been pushing today's database technologies. I think what Cloudera and Hadoop is trying to do is change the boundaries of what data can do and what database technologies and database management technologies can do. One thing we've seen at Cloudera is everyone's got big data. Most of the customers we talk to start off with a terabyte and by the end of the conversation they find they have petabytes. So the reason why people didn't have all the data back then is because they were throwing it away. There was no cheap, efficient way to store and derive value from semi-structured and unstructured data so they were kind of going to waste. I think now with the technologies such as Hadoop you can really change that paradigm around. You can do analytics, you can do a lot more data management capabilities you couldn't do before.
PS: It's hard to think of anyone better than Mike Oleson to run something like that, too.
JF: Yea, he's a good guy, a great guy.
The question about scale and startups [inaudible]. So let's talk about from a startup's perspective. They're out there, super-angels have been in the news; we've covered that on SiliconAngle. You guys are venture capitalists, and you deal with big deals. If I want to get started off the ground, what advice do you have for an entrepreneur out there? They want a good VC, they want someone who's not going to screw them over, they want somebody who's grow with them, help them navigate, and reduce their risk as well, and go to the market and be successful. So what advice do you have for some of entrepreneurs out there about navigating the "I've got to get financed, I have a prototype, I'm going to fill this white space in the VMware platform or do this and that"? What would you advice be?
CB: I'm sure we agree that you just go to El Dorado, start there :-). In a lot of ways it depends on what your business is. We talked about capital efficiency, but if you're building a storage solution, if you're building complex technologies, it's going to take 12-18 months to build and get to market, you've got to be funded to get through that point. The hardest financings today are the series B financings for these companies. If you don't appropriately fund your company through the series A and give yourself time to get to market, get the product out, have some customers work with it, it's going to be really hard to raise a good follow-on financing round. As an entrepreneur you suffer the most, frankly, because you suffer dilution from that. More capital-efficient deals, and I've heard some really smart super-angels say the same thing: the best deals they've ever done, they may have done it on their own initially, but most of those over time take enough capital that if you cannot raise venture money it would be a very challenging thing to do to build it appropriately.
JF: So you're saying if you want to built a real big business go to a serious VC.
CB: Absolutely. And if you want to start small, a few million bucks, because you're idea only takes that, then great. Most of the companies that we're seeing are not going to get to profitability on $2 million. As an entrepreneur if you really think that's going to happen you should really look at your business and look at all the comps (?) around your business and see how many of them were able to do it. And if none of them were you have to ask the question: "What's so unique about our model that's so different, or should we be planning to get more capital."
JF: I think most entrepreneurs don't know that angels tend not to do follow-on financing. So if it's an intensive deal that needs more cash they may not pony up more.
PS: I would just add that when you're an entrepreneur looking at a venture firm or an angel you obviously have to pick a firm that has some money to be there for successful financing. People don't always knock it out of the park every time after their first financing, they have to have successive deals, and its an up-and-down ride. So you need to have a firm the obviously has money and that has contractual....
JF: You want value-add.
PS: There's certainly value add. But the point I am making is that there is contraction in the venture business right now. So there is a lot of pressure on firms that aren't going to be able to raise future funds. So you have to feel good that there's going to be funding there for you down the road. That's obviously very important. And you have to feel good about who you are working with obviously. And yea the value add is important, the network that the firm brings, the experience they have, and the companies actually.... We feel it's worth something. We've done that before.
JF: You've got experience under your belt. You've got a lot of success.
PS: Yea, and we think that that can help. We have a bunch of entrepreneurs who can speak on our behalf and hopefully say the same thing, but that's the way we look at it.
JF: References are a big thing, right?
PS: Yes, that really matters.
CB: But a big part of that value add, as we said, is having access to additional capital from your initial funding source. Knowing that when push comes to shove if things are going well but you're having a hard time raising money out in the market, you can come back to your existing group of investors and continue to scale the business the way needs to be scaled or should be scaled to be successful. That is a component of being value-add to those companies, being there when they really need you to support them.
JF: Ping you work for a blue chip in Accel. They've earned a reputation over the years and have a slue of great investments. And you've got a good track record in cloud. What do you say to the folks out there who're saying, "Oh, just go super-angel"? There's some dilution not just in capital but in reputation, don't you think?
PL: I think the angels are an important part of the ecosystem for startups. We work with a lot of angels, we have angels in Cloudera, we have angels in a lot of our companies. So I think they definitely provide an important segment of the creation of startups, more and more today than ever because the capital....
JF: Isn't a super-angel just a fund?
PL: No, I think they provide value add just like a VC will. I think for me it's more that the entrepreneur needs to decide what they want and where they want the company to go. And I think figuring what the business needs should help you to figure out whether you go with angels, VC, you go with both, you go with a combination, you bring people in in different times. I don't think there's one formula. But I do encourage entrepreneurs not to feel there's one way to do it – there's probably more than one way to do it – and take the time to figure it out. The most important thing is get to know the people who will be investing in your company. Spend the time to get to know the VC. We're all very accessible, we return telephone calls, whatever it takes. And that's true for the angels. Get to know everyone, and that will help you to make the right decision.
CB:' I talked to someone recently who said, "It's hard to get an investor to come into your company, but it's ten times harder to get him out." You've got to get it right because it can absolutely kill a company if you get the wrong one.
JF: And if you run out of cash, too, you're out of business. I heard that somewhere.
Can you guys comment on Facebook? What is the phenom of Facebook? Obviously it's a cloud play, it's a huge platform growing at scale. Is that a cloud play for an enterprise to look at? Is it a unique data point?
CB: I'm going to look at the expert. The last time I sat on a panel with Ping was three weeks after they did the initial investment in Facebook. I still couldn't get in because it was only for college students.
JF: They are growing at scale, they use open source, they're writing their own code. It is a cloud kind of play.
PL: We've had a lot of conversations with different enterprise architects who are curious as to how Facebook has built its data center. I think whether it's Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, or Amazon, it's very interesting to see how these Internet data centers are becoming thought leaders in terms of where some of the new ground-breaking technologies are, whether it's in the storage layer or network or compute layer. Facebook's an early adopter of a lot of these technologies just because they were pushing the boundaries of what can be done.
JF: You think it's a proof-point, though, of a roadmap for enterprises to look at, or is it a unique, one-off?
PL: I think it is. I think you have to be careful about just transplanting things that were done for a consumer-Web property and all the nuances you need for an enterprise environment, but I think it's just like a lot of consumer companies like Facebook use enterprise technologies. So I think it is just an evolution of what they're building would be adapted. I think a lot of the private clouds enterprises are investing in is very much borrowing from a lot of the "public cloud" understandings and bringing that to an enterprise environment. You talk to the enterprise IT guys and CIOs are saying to the architect, "We want one of those Amazon things."
JF: And you go out and build it.
PL: That's what they're saying. So that's one trend. I think the other trend is....
JF: But we don't want them to have it.
PL: We don't want them to have it. And then the other thing is applications are getting rewritten for different ways. In other words, people are building applications for EC2S3 that are Web-based, cloud-type applications. As more of these type applications get built they're going to end up on the enterprise. And then the infrastructure is going to have to adapt to the application. So I think that that cycle just keeps going.
JF: Pete, a question for you. You have a lot of experience in the enterprise, obviously, and IT was a sector that sort of went dark from a venture perspective, seems to be coming back with cloud. How is enterprise IT changing in the marketplace – I mean like a market for entrepreneurs? What do you see that's different now from when you were in the enterprise? You were at HP, you worked as a startup in the enterprise. It's changing.
PS: Before I got into the venture business six-seven years ago, the whole social media, consumerization of IT was not really happening. So that's a huge change that's impacting the enterprise IT landscape. It's got IT executives running around with their hair on fire on how to deal with. So in the world of IT that's a huge change since I was in the business eight or nine years ago. It's still an unsolved problem. No one knows exactly what the right answer is with all these iPads and so forth entering the world. So at the same time a lot of these startups are trying to bring consumerization of IT and social media into the enterprise. But still a lot of the problems are unsolved.
JF: It's the same problem Facebook has. They have to operate at scale and completely rearchitect their platforms.
CB: But also I think the IT organizations up until a few years ago were really focused on "I've got my enterprise apps, everything that's outside of the enterprise, my job is to keep it outside the enterprise and keep my stuff here." And increasingly the good IT organizations – there are a lot of them out there – are realizing they need to find a way to enable that technology to come in. I had a guy at Morgan Stanley who ran all their end-user apps. He said, "You know our job used to be to block this stuff. Now we have buys going home at night, and they're more efficient getting things done at home than they are in the office because of the limits we put on them. We've got to change that paradigm." I think it's a fundamental shift in the mindset of IT, and I think you see a lot of the guys here, and I would point to Facebook and Google and others as things they look to as resources their employees are using and ask, "How do we take advantage of that for our company." it's a major mind shift.
JF: A final question; I know you guys gotta go. What is your outlook for the next five years in terms of what people might expect, not so much from a venture perspective but also from a personal perspective? You see a lot of deals, you see patterns, you see problems that need to be solved. What do you see in the next five years in opportunities that are out there?
PL: One of the things I'm excited about is I think is cloud computing's going to enable a whole new set of mobile applications that were never possible before. I think the iPad, the iPhone, the whole opening up of the operating systems are creating a whole new set of applications that are very tethered to the mobile handset. But now you're seeing people leverage those open platforms as well as the cloud in new applications. I think that's going to spawn a whole new set of consumer user experiences that we never envisioned.
JF: And new policies that need to be implemented at the router level.
PL: Yes. I do think your imagination can run wild. If you can process all the data in the cloud through a Hadoop cluster and you can build a really neat user interface through the iPhone imagine some of the applications that's possible that just don't exist today.
PS: I agree. Like I said earlier, we're early in the innovation cycle here. It's going to be driven by in large part the U.S. economy and world economy as to how fast things go in terms of five years, 10 years, 15 years. But we're early in the cycle, and the sky's the limit. You look at mainframe to client/server – mainframe growth kind of continued along and the client/server boom brought all sorts of new applications. That's sort of what's going to happen here. What they are exactly we don't know, and at what pace we don't know, but it's going to happen.
CB: I agree. We're definitely in front of it. I think five years from now you'll see some of these sectors getting sorted out. HP's making a big play right now, Dell's trying to, Cisco is. They're all trying to figure it out.
JF: You're on the board of Compellent, the last standing storage deal out there.
CB: I'm on the board of Compellent, the best storage deal out there.
I think you're going to see a lot of the infrastructure, the pipes get built, the software that drives a lot of this stuff, people are starting to settle in on a few choices there. There are apps out there today that will continue to get better. The choices for enterprises will continue to improve. I think you will see significantly more flexibility in terms of how you migrate what you have in your data center into a private cloud, into a public cloud, to the point where ideally over time the end-user shouldn't even know where it sits. And most people through the organization don't really need to know where the information resides or what they're running it off of. There are very few people who need to. It's a question of what do we need to get done with this and what is the best place to put it as a result. I think we are at the very early stages of getting that done. If I were an entrepreneur looking at this market I would be all over where do we go over the next 10 years. There will be a ton of innovation and a lot of opportunity for companies.
JF: Okay, guys, thanks so much. I'll summarize by saying that if you're an entrepreneur out there there's a boatload of money these guys are spending. So there's plenty of money out there if you have something innovative, the market's growing.
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We didn't do enough
Paul Lambert believes his side didn't do enough to see out the game in the second half against Cardiff City.
Wolves took an early lead through Matt Doherty at the Cardiff City Stadium on Tuesday night but were pegged back twice in the second half to fall to defeat.
And while the Head Coach believes Wolves were comfortable in the first half, he admitted that his side didn't do enough in the second.
Speaking after Tuesday's game, he said: "First half we were fine, there wasn't a problem. Second half, they came out and got a little bit of impetus in the game.
"They were never really damaging until the goal but I don't think we did enough in the second half. I thought we were pretty comfortable in the first half.
"All Cardiff really did was pump long balls into the box from throw-ins and corners.
"I thought we dealt with it pretty well but I thought the equaliser was poor, we should have done better with that one.
"We had a chance at 1-1 to make it 2-1 but, apart from that, I don't think we did enough in the second half.
"It was a poor game with few chances. It was a game of long balls and second balls.
"Saville's was probably one of the best chances of the game."
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"You can always go by players reactions and every one of them thought that it was a goal kick.
"But you've to be able to defend corners in this division. You can see the way that Cardiff play, they will get balls into the box."
When asked how his players took the defeat, Lambert responded: "They're down which you would expect. That's normal after every game you lose.
"This league is unforgiving, they're a young team and they need a little bit of experience and help.
"They came out in the second half with a little bit more urgency than ourselves.
"We had a really tough game on Saturday. The emotion of that game was obviously draining as well. I knew the game took its toll on Cavaleiro, Dicko and Costa.
"We came out leggy and tired which is no excuse because they played on Saturday as well. In this league you have to perform in every single game.
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Andriy Yarmolenko has left Borussia Dortmund after one season to sign a four-year contract with West Ham United, the club announced on Wednesday.
Yarmolenko's arrival continues new manager Manuel Pellegrini's overhaul of the squad, with midfielder Jack Wilshere, goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski and defenders Issa Diop and Ryan Fredericks joining the club this summer.
"We are very happy to welcome Andriy," West Ham director of football Mario Husillos said in a statement. "When we had the opportunity to sign him, we did not hesitate, because he really is the kind of player that we were looking for."
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West Ham did not disclose the fee they paid Dortmund to acquire the 28-year-old, although reports said it was around £17.5 million.
Yarmolenko, whose 35 goals for Ukraine are second only to Andriy Shevchenko, scored 137 goals in all competitions in nine years at Dynamo Kiev.
He scored six goals in 26 appearances last season for Dortmund, who signed him in a €25m move last summer after losing Ousmane Dembele to Barcelona.


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Q: application deployed on jboss doesn't update db schema I started to study j2ee and looked into jboss7 quickstarts. To be exact jboss-as-login example. It works nice but when i change default datasource (with newly created one) and persistence.xml it doesn't update db schema with hbm2ddl despite of property set in persistence.xml. And there is no signs of updating in log
here are my files
persistence.xml - http://pastebin.com/2M5gx0Tp
startup log - http://pastebin.com/U0zZVQn0
i would say that if i change something in entities code and then manually correct database everything works. But i don't want to create everything by hand.
thank you

A: Shouldn't the property be called hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto? In your configuration you refer to it as hbm2ddl.auto.

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Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Basically, it's made up of two separate words — "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.


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Q: How to view head columns of several data frames? What is the best way to view the first few columns of several data frames using a for loop?
Here is what I tried:
DF_List = (df1, df2, df3)
for DF in DF_List:
    print DF.head()

Error:
File "<ipython-input-18-bed47d1fdce7>", line 6
print DF.head()
       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I also tried:
    DF_List = (df1, df2, df3)
    for DF in DF_List:
    DF.head()
Error:
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'head'

Note: This question is not a duplicate of the question involving the print function, because it is not dependent on the "print"- see second attempt within the code.


As you know, Ben Folds has reunited with his old bandmates Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge for a recording session, with the intention of releasing an album if things go well. Apparently, as you can see from the photo, things are going well – enough so, in fact, that not only is an album in the offing, but a tour as well. Dates and locations are being booked and firmed up, but expect to see an announcement shortly. They plan to continue recording into March, and then we'll see what happens!
Update: The official schedule isn't out yet but already one festival is announcing booking the reunited trio. Mountain Jam 2012, held in Hunter, N.Y. May 31-June 3, is promoting Ben Folds Five as one of its many acts. Tickets are already on sale.
This is the best news!! The chemisty with all 3 is much greater than Ben's solo performances and material. Keep up the great work, Frank.


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Samanta Tīna
Event Rotterdam 2020
Second Semi-Final Starts 18th
Song Still Breathing
Lyrics Aminata Savadogo
Music Samanta Tīna
Samanta Tīna has competed in the Latvian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest no less than 6 times, finishing second twice – in 2012 and more notably in 2013 with the fan-beloved song, I Need a Hero. Not one to give up, Samanta has also twice attempted to represent her second home, Lithuania, in 2015 and 2017.
A strong competitor in singing competitions, Samanta won a local TV show that allowed her to attend a music school in London in 2010. In 2012, she was runner up in Slavianski Bazaar in Belarus, and in 2014, she finished in the top 8 of the Lithuanian series of The Voice. Most recently, in 2016, Samanta was among participants of the international contest of popular music New Wave.
Each time the singer has brought different songs to her competitions, but the one thing to remain consistent is her powerful vocal range. Samanta describes her voice as a god-given talent that needs to be heard on the big stage. Anyone lucky enough to witness her live performances would find it impossible to disagree.
Still Breathing offers a strong message of female empowerment and is an ode to women who are held to unrealistically high standards. They're meant to be beautiful at all times, while also being perfect mothers and devoted wives – all the while working to chase their dreams. It's about the relentlessness of the expectation to do it all and the ability still breathe despite the endless struggle. The song was co-produced by Samanta and seasoned Latvian musician, Arnis Račinskis. The lyrics were written by Eurovision 2015 finalist Aminata Savadogo, who represented Latvia with Love Injected.
Samanta wants to show Europe and the world that Latvia is not a small country to be underestimated. Her love of Eurovision runs deep: in 2019, the singer wrote her graduating paper based on an analysis of the national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest in Latvia and Lithuania.
Lyrics of Still Breathing
I will keep on going, I will keep on running
Run until I reach the end
Strong enough to take it, I am gonna make it
Destiny is in my hands
Thought I'll never get up, thought I'm gonna give up
Lost on my way, many times betrayed
But still breathing, I'm still breathing
Nothing to regret, never looking back
Lifelines go on
Let the life go on
I grow strong
So can I get strong
But I grow strong
Every day I wake up, trying to get higher
Be a better woman, working even harder
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing
Listening to my heart, ready for the start
Life lines go on
Reaching for the stars, I know I'm getting closer
Life is music, I am a composer
My dreams become so real with all the love I'm feeling
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Summer in Whistler: 4 Things to Do
Lisa Manfield | 6/02/2014
Blake Jorgensen
When: August 8-17
Where: Various venues in Whistler Village
Cost: Free for spectators
If you get your kicks speeding head-first down a mountain, then you won't want to miss the Crankworx Freeride Mountain Bike Festival, 10 days of wheeling and reeling that will have you itching to get your spokes spinning.
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Squamish Festival
Where: Centennial Field, Logger Sports Grounds and Hendrickson Fields in Squamish, 39641 Loggers Lane
Cost: Weekend $325, one-day $149
One of the greatest rappers alive? Check. A Super Bowl headliner? Yup. A Juno- and Grammy-Award winning band? But of course. Headliners at the fifth annual Squamish Valley Music Festival include Eminem, Bruno Mars and Arcade Fire, with additional crowd pleasers like Foster the People, The Thievery Corporation and The Roots filling out the festival schedule.
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Pemberton Music Festival
When: July 18-20
Where: Pemberton Valley, 1835 Hwy 99
Anytime a reunited Outkast, '90s legends Sound-garden and Deadmau5 – the man who made electro mainstream – are headlining the bill, you know you're getting your money's worth. But if you're still having a hard time deciding which music festival to attend this year, Pemberton's comedy chops could be the determining factor: acts include The Trailer Park Boys, Bob Saget and Norm MacDonald.
When: June 21-22
Where: Whistler Olympic Park, 5 Callaghan Valley Road
Looking for an electrifying weekend, literally? Participate in one of the muddiest events to hit the region since the provincial election. Tough Mudder's obstacle course isn't for the faint of heart, with its Arctic ice baths, slippery rope swings and, yes, electric currents, but it sure will give you stories to take back to work on Monday morning.
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Whistler isn't just a skiing town - there's plenty of summer fun to be had
Don't mistake Whistler as a winter-only destination. Head to the hills and find out just how much this world-class mountain resort rocks in the summer. We've highlighted the ideal weekends to hit up the top destinations close to home for the perfect quick escapes. Now simply pick a direction and go!
Lisa Manfield, Contributor
Lisa Manfield is a writer, editor and content strategist. Formerly the editor of bcliving, she has also been managing editor at Orato.com, marketing manager at TheTyee.ca, and contributing editor for a number of publications. She has developed print and online content, marketing collateral, and courseware for Canada Wide Media, UBC, CBC TV and the Knowledge Network. She also teaches Writing and Editing for the Web at SFU. Follow her on Twitter and Google+
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Linda Bhatia
Linda Bhatia is Michael Bhatia's mother. She lives in Fort Ticonderoga, New York and Medway, Massachusetts, where Michael grew up.
Michael Bhatia
Michael Vinay Bhatia '99 died May 7, 2008 in Afghanistan, where he was working as a social scientist in consultation with the US military in the Human Terrain System. Michael was a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute from July 2006 to June 2007. At the Institute, he was involved in a research project on Cultural Awareness in the Military while writing his PhD dissertation and teaching a senior seminar on "The US Military: Global Supremacy, Democracy and Citizenship." Michael was a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford where he was a George C. Marshall Scholarship in 2001 and a Scoville Peace Fellow in 2000, after graduating from Brown University magna cum laude in 1999 with a degree in International Relations. Over several years, Michael's research and humanitarian work took him to such conflict zones as Sahrawi refugee camps, East Timor, and Kosovo, in addition to five research trips in Afghanistan.
Tricia Bhatia
Tricia Bhatia is Michael Bhatia's sister.
Keith Brown
Keith Brown is a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in the study of twentieth-century Macedonia, the evaluation of democracy promotion programs; identity politics in diasporic communities; and what the US military learned about culture from its experience in Bosnia and Kosovo. He is a co-founder and director of research on the Cultural Awareness and the Military Project at the Watson Institute for International Relations at Brown University, and is a primary consultant for Human Terrain.
Jarat Chopra
Jarat Chopra is currently president of Peacemaintenance International, which specializes in ground assessments, and planning and implementation of conventional and unconventional peace operations. Earlier this year, he developed the United Nations' system-wide strategy for Somalia through the first use of a "Strategic Assessment." He was a faculty member at Brown University from 1990 to 2007, serving as director of the International Relations Program. During his time at Brown he was a mentor to and close friend of Michael Bhatia.
James Der Derian
James Der Derian is a research professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University where he directs the Global Media Project and co-founded the 'Cultural Awareness and the Military Project.' He is author most recently of Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network (2nd Ed., Routledge, 2009), and of Critical Practices in International Theory (Routledge, 2009). He has produced two other documentaries, Virtual Y2K and After 9/11.
Steve Fondacaro
Steve Fondacaro PHD is the Project Manager U.S. Army Human Terrain System HTS at TRADOC (U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command) in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In 2005 he and Montgomery McFate began developing the Human Terrain System, which has become central to American counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
Tom Garcia
In 2008, Tom Garcia served as a Team Member with Michael Bhatia on the Human Terrain Team One outside Khost, Afghanistan and is now a Human Terrain Instructor at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (TRADOC).
Roberto Gonzalez is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work focuses upon the relationship between humans and their environment; science, technology, and society; militarism and culture; and anthropological ethics. He has conducted ethnographic research in Latin America and the United States. His books include: Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (2001), Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power (2004), and American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain (2009). He is a founding member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists and published a chapter "Embedded" in The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual (2009).
Philip Gourevitch
Philip Gourevitch is an American author and journalist, is the editor of "The Paris Review" and a longtime staff writer of The New Yorker. His most recent book is "The Ballad of Abu Ghraib,", an account of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison under the American occupation, which was originally published as Standard Operating Procedure. Gourevitch has written on a variety of subjects — from ethnic conflicts in Africa, Europe and Asia to political corruption in Rhode Island and the music of James Brown. He became widely known for his first book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, which tells the story of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
Hugh Gusterson
Hugh Gusterson is a professor of Anthropology at George Mason University researching nuclear weapons, militarism, anthropology of science, social movements, pharmaceutical cultures, American culture, public anthropology, and social theory. He also writes about militarism and about science more generally, and has a strong interest in professional ethics. He is the author of Nuclear Rites (UC Press, 1996) and People of the Bomb (Minnesota, 2004) and co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity (Minnesota, 1999) and Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong (UC Press, 2005), Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong (UC Press, 2005), and The Insecure American (UC Press, 2009). He is a founding member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists and published a chapter "Militarizing Knowledge" in The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual (2009).
LT. Colonel Jay Hatton
LT. Colonel Jay Hatton, is Associate Dean for Warfighting at the Marine Corps Command Staff College, and is a U.S. Marine Corps Regimental Commanding Officer.
Christopher Hitchens is an American author, journalist, and literary critic. He has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets making him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. In 2009 Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "25 most influential liberals in U.S. media.
Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrooke is the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, working under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. He most recently served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, where he was also a member of President Clinton's cabinet (1999-2001). As assistant secretary of state for Europe (1994-1996), he was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. He later served as President Clinton's special envoy to Bosnia and Kosovo and special envoy to Cyprus. From 1993-1994, he was the US ambassador to Germany. After joining the foreign service in 1962, he served in Vietnam (1963-66), including a tour of duty in the Mekong Delta for AID. He worked on Vietnam at the Johnson White House (1966-68), wrote one volume of the Pentagon Papers, and was a member of the American delegation to the Vietnam Peace Talks in Paris (1968-69). He graduated from Brown University in 1962.
Fred Kaplan is a journalist and contributor to Slate magazine. His "War Stories" column covers international relations and US foreign policy. Prior to writing for Slate, Kaplan was a correspondent at the Boston Globe, reporting from Washington DC, Moscow, and New York City. He was a member of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a special Sunday Boston Globe Magazine on the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race. His 1983 book on the men who invented nuclear strategy, The Wizards of Armageddon, won the Washington Monthly Political Book of the Year award. In early 2008 he published Daydream Believers[1], which discusses the Bush Administration's use of Cold War tactics in post 9/11 actions. In the book he explores why the administration has pursued policies he believes to be unilateral action and pre-emptive warfare.
LT. Colonel Andrew Kennedy
LT. Colonel Andrew Kennedy is the Urban Warfare director at the Twentynine Palms Marine Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California.
LT. Colonel Patrick Kline
LT. Colonel Patrick Kline, is the Director of the Urban Warfare Training Program in 'Mojave Viper' at the Twentynine Palms Marine Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. Previously he was a battalion instructor-inspector of the 4th Marine Division in the during the relief operations in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Catherine Lutz
Catherine Lutz is the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Chair of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology, which she chairs. She is the past president of the American Ethnological Society, the largest organization of cultural anthropologists in the U.S. and a founding member of the 'Network of Concerned Anthropologists.' Her recent publications are 'The Bases of Empire' (2009), 'Carjacked' (2010), and the chapter 'The Military Normal' in 'The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual' (2009). At the Watson Institute, Catherine is a co-founder and director of research on the Cultural Awareness and the Military Project, and is a primary consultant for Human Terrain.
Jackie Lyden
Jackie Lyden is a radio correspondent and host primarily working for National Public Radio. She contributes to a variety of programs at NPR, reporting extensively from the Middle East. She is also the weekend host for the daily program All Things Considered.
Major William S. McCallister
Major William S. McCallister is a retired military officer. He has worked extensively in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. While on active duty, Mr. McCallister served in numerous special operations assignments specializing in civil-military, psychological and information operations. McCallister is currently employed as a senior consultant for Applied Knowledge International (AKI) in Iraq. He continues to study current events in Iraq in tribal terms, including the tribal art of war and peace, tribal mediation processes, development of tribal centers of power, and tribal influence in political developments. He has applied his study of tribal culture in assessing Iraqi reconstruction efforts, as well as insurgency and counter-insurgency operations in Iraq and the Global War on Terror.
Montgomery McFate
Montgomery McFate is a cultural anthropologist and a defense and national security analyst, and one of the primary architects of the United States Army Human Terrain System program. She co-directs the Human Terrain System with Steve Fondacaro in TRADOC, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and co-wrote Chapter Three: Intelligence in the US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual FM 3-24 (2006).
Major General O'Dell
Major General O'Dell, Commanding General, 4th Marine Division. Previously he served as the Commanding General, 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (Anti-Terrorism). In June, 2007 O'Dell was appointed by President Bush to serve as Coordinator of Federal Support for the Recovery and Rebuilding of the Gulf Coast Region after Hurricane Katrina.
Senior Interrogator Michael Ritz
Senior Interrogator Michael Ritz, Team Delta U.S. Army, and Former Instructor at the SERE School (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape).
Barak Salmoni
Barak Salmoni is an Assistant Professor in National Security Affairs at U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. From October 2003 to January 2004 he trained elements of the 1st Infantry Division and National Guard on operational culture in Iraq. From 2003 to 2004, he worked with the 1st Marine Division's command training focusing on issues of indigenous culture, mores, and Iraqi public sentiment as impacts Operation Iraqi Freedom 2. He worked with the Marines in Iraq in 2004 and has since been an architect of the Marine Corps Training Education Command and an assistant professor at the Center for Contemporary Conflict.
Brian Selmeski
Brian Selmeski is a cultural anthropological research associate at the Royal Military College of Canada's Centre for Security, Armed Forces & Society in Kingston, Ontario, and coordinator of the Military Anthropology Network. He is also a member of the Air Force Culture and Language Center at Air Force University.
Sergeant Frank Tramano
Sergeant Frank Tramano, is a Simulation Trainer in 'Mojave Viper' at the Twentynine Palms Marine Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California.
Gunnery Sgt. Peter Walz USMC
Gunnery Sgt. Peter Walz USMC, Public Affairs Officer in 'Mojave Viper' at the Twentynine Palms Marine Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California.
Francis J. 'Bing' West
Francis J. 'Bing' West, an author of military books, served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan Administration and is currently president of the GAMA Corporation, which designs wargames and combat decision-making simulations. His 2004 book The March Up: Taking Bagdhad with the First Marine Division was awarded the Marine Corps Heritage Prize for Nonfiction, as well as the Colby Award. He is currently writing the screenplay for No True Glory, with his son Owen, for Universal Studios. West is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, appears on The News Hour on PBS and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Captain Alex Wright
Captain Alex Wright, Civil Affairs Officer and Instructor in 'Mojave Viper' at the Twentynine Palms Marine Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California.


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Zika: India's Bharat Biotech claims to have two vaccines for virus linked to microcephaly
By Matt Atherton
Updated February 3, 2016 14:17 GMT
Scientists in Hyderabad in India are claiming to have two Zika vaccines following research that began nine months ago, and that they are now being prioritised to go through animal and human trials. Bharat Biotech International have said it began researching vaccines long before the outbreak in Brazil which started last year.
NDTV reportsthat assuming the vaccines make it through clinical trials successfully, it is believed that they could be rolled out to the public in around four months, with a million doses created in the process. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has praised the pharmaceutical company for its foresight in the face of a growing pandemic.
Zika virus photo reports
In Catholic Latin America, pregnant women consider abortion over microcephaly fears
Parents of babies born with microcephaly demand answers
"We have just been informed about the Zika vaccine candidate that Bharat Biotech has," said Soumya Swaminathan, director general at the ICMR. "We will examine it from the scientific point of view and see the feasibility of taking it forward. It is a good example of a 'Make in India' product."
Bharat Biotech began research on its vaccines nine months ago when its legally imported a live Zika virus to India. Information on how the vaccines actually work has not yet been released.
Since then, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it clear that the vaccines need to be fast-tracked through clinical trials.
Krishna Ella, managing director of Bharat Biotech, said: "On Zika, we are probably the first vaccine company in the world to file a vaccine candidate patent about nine months ago."
She told IBTimes UK: "Considering the prime target groups for vaccination, safety was an important factor. The formulated inactivated vaccine is expected to elicit a strong antibody response as we see humoral immunity offering a primary defense against Zika infection."
On 1 February, the World Health Organisation declared the Zika virus to be a global health emergency. More than 20 South American countries have confirmed cases of the virus, and it has since spread to Denmark and the US – where it was claimed that it had been transmitted through sexual contact. The virus has been linked to thousands of cases of the birth defects microcephaly, wherein babies are born with far smaller heads and brains.
Margaret Chan, WHO director general, said: "I am now declaring that the recent cluster of microcephaly and other neurological abnormalities reported in Latin America following a similar cluster in French Polynesia in 2014 constitutes a public health emergency of international concern."
More about Zika
Brazil Zika virus: Facts, symptoms, microcephaly – everything you need to know about infection
Zika virus: Australia reports two cases of infection as Asia rush to put in safeguards
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff vows to fight Zika virus
Zika virus: First infection transmitted through sex reported in US
Zika virus: Dutch NGO offers free abortion pills online to women infected with Zika


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Walker Photographers
Among my earliest memories of Walker family gatherings was the sight of my three Walker uncles with their cameras, taking pictures of the rest of us and discussing lens, film, shutter speed and other aspects of photographic technology. The story of the three photographer brothers, with emphasis on Frank, was even written up in this 15 Oct 1957 Los Angeles Herald-Express article:
Views in the Valley News
By CHARLES PAGE
If the three Walker brothers involved in this story ever have difficulty with a photography problem, they can ask each other.
Most likely, however, Bill, the Herald-Express photog, and Charles, who has a studio in Santa Monica, will seek advice from brother Frank. After all, he started the others in the profession by his interest and enthusiasm in the hobby.
Frank, who lives in Van Nuys and works for Lockheed over in Burbank, started fussing with a camera when he was seven years old. That's 45 years ago. He used an old-type folding camera for many years, but in 1947 became a 35mm color man, almost exclusively.
He's been active in the Valley 35mm Club, and some of his slides have been exhibited in national salons, and at the California State Fair last month.
He graduated from college as a chemist, which may explain in part his continuing interest in photography. His other hobby is raising iris.
Growing iris and taking pictures and making estimates for Lockheed aren't enough to keep him occupied, so a few weeks ago, he began teaching a course in colored photography at Burbank's John Burroughs Evening High School. This takes his Thursday nights.
Frank is married and has three children, Jon, a student at Pierce Junior College; Karen, a senior in Van Nuys High School;1 and Sally, a student in junior high. They are not following in Dad's steps, hobbywise. And, his wife, Gladys, is interested in art.
If he has the same influence on his students as he had with his two kid brothers, Bill and Charley, the ranks of photographers should be somewhat increased.
There must be something in our Walker genes that compels us to be photographers or reporters. In the generations before my uncles, there were:
Their great-grandfather, John Finley Walker, who edited and published several Indiana newspapers.
Their uncle, John Walker, who spent his spare time photographing Arizona desert scenes. You can see examples of his work in our Tombstone scrapbook.
Their uncle, Norman Walker, who reported on the Mexican revolution for the Associated Press.
In later generations, although the photographic genes seem to have skipped me, our daughter Alice has produced many beautiful photos which she sells on eBay or uploads to her Facebook page, such as the beautiful batch of photos which she shot in her back yard on New Year's Day 2010.
And I've seen examples of the photographic work of several cousins which further demonstrates that the Walker photographic tradition is alive and well in the 21st century. For instance, Trish Hartmann, who is a niece to Frank, Chuck and Bill, has taken some beautiful pictures of Florida seashells which she published in February 2007. In her own modest words, "Bivalve Seashells of Florida is a beautifully photographed, well-organized, detailed field guide to Florida's bivalve seashells." And our nephew Craig Carey is not only an author but an excellent photographer.
1 Karen attended, and graduated from, Birmingham High School.
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We all know we have a "body clock" and that it's slowly winding down. But researchers are learning more about just what that means.
Is There Life After Tech?
What happens when critical technology fails? Engineering physics professor Peter Townsend speaks with Vision publisher David Hulme.
In an age when human survival seems to be hanging in the balance, cosmologist Martin Rees speculates on our collective future.
In the face of mounting threats to humanity's continued existence on Earth, scientists are proposing various solutions. But they all seem to be overlooking one fundamental problem.
As biotechnology marches us toward a world of new and improved human genetics, should we be optimistic—or concerned?
Many scientists are warning that the human footprint is one of indiscriminate destruction and possibly irretrievable loss. Are our days numbered?
Is the present century humanity's last? It's a growing concern for many.
Around the world, whole species of amphibians are dying. And it all may have started with a human pregnancy test.
Science and the Bible agree on fundamental aspects of what makes life possible. Uncovering its origin and purpose by scientific means has proven more challenging.
Science has given us answers to many questions, but what gives us confidence in those answers? Can what we come to believe actually bring about our demise?


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FolkWorld Live Review issue 29 09/2004 by Michael G. Rose
As good music as wet weather
Tønder Festival's 30th anniversary
The Tønder Festival celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, and the music was as good as the weather was wet. And the weather was very wet. While presenting the usual excellent cross-section of Celtic music, this year also featured a number of excellent Canadian bands, Appalachian and Old Time American acts and some very promising new Danish faces. And in keeping with the Danish tradition of throwing a huge birthday party on round brithdays, every 10 years, the organizers had a number of special birthday treats for in store for those who came early to the festival.
As is the tradition at Tønder, Thursday night featured two folk rock bands. The first band, Vamp, was unusual in that it is a Norwegian band, singing in Norwegian, with special guest Mick O'Brien on uilleann pipes and whistle. Vamp played an entertaining set, playing a range of tempos and styles. At their best they captured the soulful longing and loneliness which is so typically Norwegian while still performing with energy and playfulness. It was also a pleasure to watch the musicianship of the band, and especially Øyvind Staveland, as he coaxed so many different sounds out of his fiddle. The second act of the evening was Runrig, who have become almost synonomous with Thursday night at Tønder. They have been together about as long as the festival, giving their first performance there 28 years ago, and on this evening gave a polished performance of their own brand of stadium folk rock.
One of my favorite aspects of the Tønder Festival is that the artists perform several times, in different venues, and oftentimes as each other's guests. One of this year's mix-n-match concerts found Richard Wood and John Spillane joining Danu at a late Friday night concert. Danu had just played another concert earlier in the evening. This first concert showed why Danu is one of Ireland's busiest and most versatile bands, with the seven members sometimes playing as a full ensemble and for other tunes playing in smaller groups of varied instrumentation. The real treat was Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, her low and expressive voice gave a rare and welcome depth to the songs. Earlier in the evening Richard Wood had given a concert with his own rhythm section of Kimberly and Skip Holmes, on piano and guitar respectively. The trio performed a fairly straight Cape Breton set which focused attention on Wood's flair for showmanship. However when Wood was Danu's guest for the late night concert he dropped the dancing and concentrated on the music. It was a pleasure to listen to him in this setting. And as much as I like John Spillane as a solo performer, there is an extra dimension to his music when he is accompanied by musicians of the caliber of Danu.
Saturday afternoon gave a chance to hear a number of promising young bands in a dual event hosted by Harald Haugaard and Morten Alfred Høirup. Highlights of the afternoon included the Anna Massie Band, Karen Mose & Helen Blum, and the students from the Carl Nielsen Conservatory. Anna Massie is a young Scottish multi-instrumentalist who plays with a musical maturity far beyond her years. And her trio mates, Mairearad Green and Jenn Butterworth were equally accomplished, with surprising depth in their musicality. This trio was my favorite new find of the festival.
The Danish singers Karen Mose and Helene Blum have recently begun singing together and working with the well known duo Haugaard & Høirup. They are renewing the old Danish ballads, lovely songs which have long lain neglected. The balance between Karen's deeper voice and Helene's higher and younger sound is perfect, reminding me of the sound of Maddy Prior and June Tabor in their Silly Sister's recordings. Morten Alfred Høirup has often worked as a tasteful accompanist to singers, Harald Haugaard comes from a solo instrumental tradition and adds his fiddle's voice to the songs in his own unique way. Harald is also the director of the folk music program at the Carl Nielsen Conservatory in Denmark, and the students take part in the afternoon concert as a big band. This year's concert was their best yet. The students each get a chance to showcase their own compostions or a tune from their home region. The pieces by fidder Sophia Erikkson and singer Iouliana Svetlitchnaia were particularly good. Finally, another young Danish fiddler, Henrik Jansberg used the occasion of the festival to release his new CD. Signatur. Though Henrik plays mostly Danish tunes, there is a strong influence of Western swing in his playing which gives his style a very good groove.
There was also a chance to hear some good music from Canada and the U.S.A. On Saturday night we were treated to Bruce Molsky and J.P. Cormier. Bruce Molsky has become a leading ambassador for Appalachian and southern U.S music. He draws the audience into his world and makes them feel as if they are sitting in his living room while he entertains with his pure clean voice and musicianship on fiddle and banjo. He has also mastered the art of accompanying himself on fiddle while singing. J.P. Cormier made a return trip to Tønder this year, and I was happy to finally catch his concert, with his wife Hilda. J.P. sings and plays virtually all of the string instruments and Hilda accompanies him on piano. Their repertoire covers a vast range of material but they are especially strong with their native Cape Breton tunes.
The finale concert on Sunday night began on an intimate note with the Irish masters Seamus Begley and Jim Murray on button accordian and guitar. Their music was rich with a full and energetic sound and was complemented by step dancers Seosamh Ó Neachtain and Róisin Ní Mháinnín. Murray was especially impressive for the full sound he drew out of his nylon stringed guitar while complementing Begely note for note on the dance tunes. Carlos Nunez followed, exuding his natural Iberian exubernace. Nunez often draws on local talent whereever he performs, so for this show he had the Danish piper Stig Bang-Mortensen join him for the last few numbers. Bang-Mortensen marched onstage playing a well known Danish ballad on his highland pipes, resulting in a spontaneous sing-along from the appreciative crowd. The evening closed with family reunion, as Mary Black was joined by her three brothers who also had given a concert at the festival. It gave a warm look back into the Irish singing tradition and to the Cork songwriting tradition, from which she draws much of her material. In fact she added two John Spillane numbers to her show, to the delight of both him and the audience.
Tønder Festival Homepage: www.tf.dk
In the next issue of FolkWorld will be another review (by the editors of FolkWorld) of the 30th bithday bash of this grat festival - look out for that!
Photo Credit: All photos by Michael G. Rose: (1) La Vent du Nord jams with the Bills; (2) Danu and Richard Wood; (3) Haugaard, H�irup and Helene Blum; (4) Sophia Erikkson and Hal Parfitt Murray from Carl Nielsen Academy; (5) Seamus Begley and Dancers at Session (at half past four in the morning...)
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Party Favor And Marc E. Bassy Drop 'I See You'
11 months ago Matti
This current era of Party Favor is one based on experimentation and discovery. After years of dealing with a grueling tour schedule, the global pandemic allowed him to self-reflect and reset his creativity. Offering a medley of styles from his well-received dance/alt-pop single, 'Superhuman' ft K Flay, to his laidback single 'Anxious' ft MSAN.
In what's ramping up to be his biggest year yet as he approaches the release of his forthcoming LP, releasing his 7th single since May 2021 with the sultry and unnerving single 'I See You' featuring Marc. E Bassy. "Morning never comes in a dungeon/Ain't no need to open your eyes."
With Party Favor on the production, it starts off tense, constrained in a never-ending loop of the chords. It entices the listener to wander into the dungeon through Marc's perspective. Slowly the bass creeps underneath, helping Marc gain his bearings, as he exclaims "I See you" as the production brightens. Together they teeter back and forth between warmness and cynicism.
This latest journey only further depicts the creative spark that flowed through Party Favor during the pandemic. So many emotions and ideas came upon during that time of isolation only gave him more time to reflect. With touring opening around the country, the people will finally get to hear the latest version of Party Favor behind complete sets. The evolution will soon be in their hands. Until then, check out his previous singles here and let us know what you think.
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Los Angeles Port receives $9.9 million development grant
Reservations for each of the above trips made before Dec. 31, 2020 would benefit from a 10-15 percent discount, as well as an extra $250 onboard credit, according to the press release. The 10-15 percent discount is only valid for trips booked before June
"Support for this federal grant came from all levels of government. We are grateful to the U.S. Department of Transportation, including its Maritime Administration, the members of Congress who represent the Port, and state and local leaders for recognizing the urgent need to modernize this critical junction of the National Highway Freight Network," said Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka.
Such improvements to the United States The National Highway Freight Network (NHFN) designated by the Department of Transportation (USDOT) includes new and expanded on-ramps and off-ramps, thereby enhancing access to / from I-110 and the Vincent Thomas Bridge; removal of a congested weaving section on the current off-ramp eastbound; and upgrades to the Harbor Boulevard / Front Street intersections, including a new signal at the new westbound ramp terminus.
The interchange directly serves two marine terminals that handle 5% of all containerized goods to and from the U.S. Similarly, it is an important link in the LA-Long Beach trade gateway's broader infrastructure network, which handles nearly 40% of all imports to the U.S. and 25% of all US exports.
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) also supports and funds this initiative through a proposal for funding through the South Bay Cities Council of Governments.
$41.2 million is being provided by LA Metro, of which $37.4 million is for the construction process. The Port is therefore very grateful to the Board of Directors of LA Metro, and in particular to Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles and Chairman of LA Metro, Janice Hahn, Supervisor of Los Angeles County, and Mike Bonin, Councilman of the 11th District Area.
With all terminals operating during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Port of Los Angeles remains open. The Port of Los Angeles, North America's leading seaport by container volume and cargo value, facilitated trade of $276 billion during 2019. Complex operations and trade at the port of San Pedro Bay encourage one in nine workers around Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.
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Liebherr Container Cranes to supply two new STS to Port of Liverpool Tokyo Port waives fees for LNG and hydrogen-powered ships Prime minister of Vietnam confirms second port at Danang Port of Bellingham aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 86% Nassau Cruise Port becomes critical partner in restart of cruise tourism of Caribbean


Are you finding a place in Bangkok to buy gift for your friends, colleague, or family?
If yes, I would like to recommend you a shop named 'Loft'.
Loft is a shop with the 'Beyond Ordinary Store' concept. The shop is originally from Japan and first came to Bangkok in 1997. It offers more than 100,000 products items from not only Japan and Thailand, but also from around the world.
The shop focuses on modern, innovative, and well-designed products. It has a variety range of product such as beauty, stationery, home & decoration, IT & accessories, camera & gadget, and so on.
You can check its website to get an idea of its products, but the website does not show all the products they sell. Actually, so very little products are shown on the web. So, the best way to know what they sell is to go to the shop by yourself.
Have you ever visited Loft shop? Do you like its products? Share your experience with me in the comment!
To get wholesale stationary, I usually go to Sampeng Market. But I'm not sure if the market has Korean stationary or not.


The settings for the Thank You page is not showing up in my control panel?
The settings for the thank you page are not showing up in my control panel?
You are most likely using the "Single Questions in One Page" layout. In this layout, you just need to click the "Edit Thank You Page" text link at the bottom.
1. In the Form Builder, click "Settings" in the top menu. Go to "Form Settings" and then click the "Show More Options" button.
2. Scroll down and look for "Form Layout". Please change it to "All Questions in One Page".
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Have a bite of pie.
:: AND I'm finally getting ready of the rest of this pumpkin I made for last week's cooking demo!
I know I said that the soup was the last but the puree looked so delicious, I couldn't resist.
Just dump everything in one big bowl.
Secret ingredient here is molasses. It gives depth to the flavors and the spices are magnetic towards it.
Now you can see why I've gained a few pounds since starting this blog.
Mix it up and pour into a pie shell.
I used a prepared pie shell and am feeling no shame.
I love making pie dough from scratch but it needs to be a holiday or when I have oodles of time.
It was the middle of the week and I needed to get rid of the pumpkin.
The shame comes when you used the prepared crust and try to claim it as homemade.
Bake it in a pre-heated 450 degree oven with a baking sheet in it for 10 minutes.
Reduce the heat to 325 degrees and cook for about 40 minutes more.
The best test for doneness is sticking a stainless steel knife in the middle of the pie and if it comes out clean, it's done!
And that concludes my week of pumpkins, I have one cup left.
And my little guys have had their eyes on it all week….
They love fresh pumpkin mixed in with their dogfood.
P.S. I added a new page on this blog, "Photos of the Week", this blog has taken all my attention away from my other blog and I've heard from you that you miss my photos. I'm combining both and you'll find my little captures of life here.
That looks soooo good!!!!! You know that's my favorite. Maybe I'll make one this weekend.
I'd rather have you home eating mine.
I give my dogs pumpkin, baked sweet potatoes, green beans and scrambled eggs…they love it!
I knew that sw pumpkin soup was gonna make the "buzz" as soon as I read it!!!! I really must try that & this pumpkin pie!!!!!!! Yummy Yummy!!!! Keep up the great recipes!!! Ps-I totally pinned the swp soup….like immediately!!!
love your support! and loved seeing you and the boyz the other night…great family!
your ingredients before mixing look almost as good as your final product! great shots and perfect pie!


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import (
	"fmt"
	"image"
	"image/draw"
	"image/jpeg"
	"image/png"
	"os"
	"path"
	"strings"
)

// Image wrapper around internal pixels
type Image struct {
	img    *image.RGBA
	Bounds Rect
	Width  int
	Height int
}

// SaveOpts specifies some save parameters that can be specified when saving
// an image
type SaveOpts struct {
	// JPEGCompression a value between 1 and 100, if 0 specified, defaults to 95.
	// Higher values are better quality. Only applicable if the file ends with a
	// .jpg or .jpeg extension
	JPEGCompression int

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	ClipToBounds bool
}

// Save saves the image as the file type defined by the extension in the path e.g. ,jpg or .png
func (i *Image) Save(outPath string, opts SaveOpts) error {
	ext := strings.ToLower(path.Ext(outPath))

	final := i
	if opts.ClipToBounds {
		final = &Image{
			img: image.NewRGBA(image.Rectangle{
				Min: image.Point{X: 0, Y: 0},
				Max: image.Point{X: i.Bounds.Width, Y: i.Bounds.Height},
			}),
			Width:  i.Bounds.Width,
			Height: i.Bounds.Height,
			Bounds: Rect{X: 0, Y: 0, Width: i.Bounds.Width, Height: i.Bounds.Height},
		}

		draw.Draw(final.img, final.Bounds.ToImageRect(), i.img, i.Bounds.ToImageRect().Min, draw.Src)
	}

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	case ".jpg", ".jpeg":
		cmpLvl := opts.JPEGCompression
		if cmpLvl == 0 {
			cmpLvl = 95
		}
		return final.saveAsJPG(outPath, cmpLvl)
	case ".png":
		return final.saveAsPNG(outPath)
	default:
		return fmt.Errorf("unsupported file type: %s", ext)
	}
}

// saveAsJPG saves the image as a JPG. quality is between 1 and 100, 100 being best
func (i *Image) saveAsJPG(path string, quality int) error {
	toImg, err := os.Create(path)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to create image: %s, %s", path, err)
	}
	err = jpeg.Encode(toImg, i.img, &jpeg.Options{Quality: quality})
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to encode image: %s, %s", path, err)
	}
	err = toImg.Close()
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to close image: %s, %s", path, err)
	}

	return nil
}

// saveAsPNG saves the image as a PNG
func (i *Image) saveAsPNG(path string) error {
	toImg, err := os.Create(path)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to create image: %s, %s", path, err)
	}

	err = png.Encode(toImg, i.img)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to encode image: %s, %s", path, err)
	}
	err = toImg.Close()
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to close image: %s, %s", path, err)
	}
	return nil
}

// LoadImage loads the specified image from disk. Supported file types are png and jpg
func LoadImage(path string) (*Image, error) {
	srcReader, err := os.Open(path)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read input image: %s, %s", path, err)
	}

	img, _, err := image.Decode(srcReader)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to decode image on load: %s, %s", path, err)
	}
	err = srcReader.Close()
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to close image on load: %s, %s", path, err)
	}

	outImg := image.NewRGBA(img.Bounds())
	draw.Draw(outImg, img.Bounds(), img, image.Point{}, draw.Over)

	w := img.Bounds().Max.X
	h := img.Bounds().Max.Y
	return &Image{
		img:    outImg,
		Width:  w,
		Height: h,
		Bounds: Rect{X: 0, Y: 0, Width: w, Height: h},
	}, nil
}


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Large windows and natural light highlight an open floor plan in this fantastic family home.
A fireplace in the living room creates the perfect spot to relax in the evening. The kitchen features a massive island with a raised eating bar, plus a full pantry and plenty of cabinet and counter space. Gorgeous dark granite is a lovely contrast to warm toned cabinets, while coffered ceilings in the sun drenched dining area add an elegant touch. A main floor office is an added convenience.
The master is spacious, and the en suite features a soaker tub and a glass shower, plus a hidden walk-in closet! Two more large bedrooms, a bathroom, and a bonus room make up the top floor.
A professionally finished basement includes a bar and fireplace as well as another bedroom and bathroom. The garage is a dream with cabinets and suspended storage. A unique lot orientation makes this one of the most private and quiet yards on the street.
Steps to schools, parks, and a short drive to all amenities, this home has it all.


Participants in the Summer Reading Program at the Vineland Public Library generously donated items to the Vineland Salvation Army during a six-week period in July and August.
The Children's Department, in partnership with local philanthropist Alex Kaganzev, promoted a non-perishable food item drive this summer for the Salvation Army. This was the 15th year of the food drive. The top donor was Elijah Valentin, 9, who brought in 73 items. In total, six children and some local adults donated 138 food items.
For library information, call (856) 794-4244 or visit www.vinelandlibrary.org.


Think affordable, fun and relaxing this Summer at Sunset Ridge Resort located in Minocqua, Wi!
For a relaxing and friendly atmosphere there's no where better than Sunset Ridge Resort, Minocqua, WI. You can sit back and enjoy the company of family and friends around a campfire or a picnic table. Sunset Ridge Resort offers a place to getaway and the log cabins are complete with kitchens and front porches to enjoy the spectacular sunsets right on the lake. For a little excitement after a day in the sun and swimming in the lake, there's great fishing, mini-golf, downtown shopping, horse-back riding, golfing and wonderful restaurants all just minutes away.
For more information as well as photos go to www.sunsetridgewisconsin.com. We have two and three bedroom cabins available May - September right on the lake and a three-bedroom cabin that is a very short walk to the lake. Call to get the week that works best for you.
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Q: VB two buttons with multiple clicks, sync issue I have two buttons that refer to the same forms, one allows for information to be pasted  in directly where as other is for putting information manually. When forms are completed they put the results into a text box.
What is happening is that if the input method is mixed, i,e some pasted or some manually inputted the buttons become out of sync, like button 1 may be at case 3 and button 2 will be case 5 so they may put results into wrong box or even replace an existing result.
based on the code below would there be a way to reference the state of each button, for example if button two is at case 3 then open form 5 (example).
Select Case _Step
            Case 0
                _Step = 1
                If String.IsNullOrEmpty(Me.TextBox6.Text) Then
                    popupform.Show()
                Else
                    Form3.Show()
                End If
                Exit Select

            Case 1
                _Step = 2
                If String.IsNullOrEmpty(Me.TextBox7.Text) Then
                    Form3.Show()
                Else
                    loadform3.Show()
                End If

                Exit Select

            Case 2
                _Step = 3
                If String.IsNullOrEmpty(Me.TextBox8.Text) Then
                    loadform3.Show()
                Else
                    loadform4.Show()
                End If
                Exit Select

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    AddHandler Button1.Click, AdressOf firstclick
end sub

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                popupform.Show()
     Else
                Form3.Show()
     End If
RemoveHandler Button1.Click, AddressOf firstclick
AddHandler Button1.Click, AdressOf secondclick
End Sub

Private Sub secondclick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
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                Form3.Show()
  Else
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  End If
End sub


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Great NY Times ...
Great NY Times article on Bike Helmets
Grown-Up Cyclists Need Helmets, Too
By LESLEY ALDERMAN
PublishedCATHERINE TALESE rides her bicycle everywhere — to work, to the theater, out to dinner — and always has a helmet on her head.
"There was a time when I didn't wear a helmet; I thought I looked like a dork," Ms. Talese, a freelance photography director who lives in Manhattan, told me recently. "But I've realized it's not negotiable. Helmets are really your only safety gear in a city where pedestrians and drivers are still learning to share the road with bikers."
Whether you ride on hectic city streets or bucolic back roads, helmets are essential armor. Bicycle helmets have been shown to reduce the risk of head injuries by up to 88 percent and facial injuries by 65 percent, according to a Cochrane Database Systemic Review published in 2000. Bike riders who play against those odds do not fare well in accidents. More than 90 percent of the 714 bicyclists killed in 2008 were not wearing helmets, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Even a light blow to the head can be serious.
"You don't have to be going fast to hurt your brain," said Dr. Angela F. Gardner, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. A simple concussion can be debilitating, keeping you off the job or operating at half speed for weeks. "And every concussion increases the likelihood that you will have an injury to the brain if another concussion occurs," Dr. Gardner said.
People over 30 should be particularly careful because their gray matter is not packed as tightly as it used to be. And I don't mean that only figuratively.
"As you age, your brain shrinks, but your skull does not," Dr. Gardner said. "That extra space means that the brain can bounce around inside the skull and may be more easily damaged from a blow."
Nearly half of all states have laws on the books that require children and teenagers, typically those under 16 or 18, to wear helmets. In New York, riders under 14 must wear a helmet. A handful of localities — including Dallas, El Cerrito, Calif., and Rockland County, N.Y. — have laws that require people of all ages to wear helmets when they are on a bicycle. But no states do. So in most places it is up to adults to police themselves.
If you are not a helmet wearer — yet — here is some good news: low-price helmets, as long as they meet federal standards, work just as well as high-price ones. So cost should not be an impediment.
Nor should style. There are now plenty of hip helmets on the market in a variety of shapes and shades. Ms. Talese, for instance, owns helmets in blue and silver. "My helmet is the finishing touch to my outfit. It's like a hat."
In this column I am focusing on bicycle helmets, which are designed specifically to cushion the blow of the falls most likely to happen from a bicycle. But remember, skateboarders, skiers and rollerbladers should wear helmets too, and those helmets should be specific to those sports.
Here is how to make a smart buying decision.
LOOK FOR A C.P.S.C. STICKER The sticker ensures that the product has met the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission's standards. The commission requires that helmets be tested for impact resistance on special rigs, that they offer adequate peripheral vision and that their straps be sturdy, among other measures. Helmets are tested in a variety of conditions: when they are hot, wet, cold and at room temperature.
CHEAP CAN BE SAFE According to a study by the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Va., $10 helmets from Wal-Mart Stores and Target held up just as well as more expensive models from high-end outlets.
Last spring, the institute had an independent lab test six helmets in different price ranges. The report summarized its findings: "When you pay more for a helmet you may get an easier fit, more vents and snazzier graphics. But the basic impact protection of the cheap helmets we tested equaled the expensive ones."
GET A GOOD FIT If the dork factor has been holding you (or your children) back, spring for a helmet in a color and shape you love — or at least do not hate. Check out the models from Nutcase, which feature bold graphics (stripes, flags, flames and such) in streamlined skater shapes. For more sophisticated styles, look at the options from Giro.
Whether you are buying for yourself or a child, be sure the fit is snug and comfortable. The helmet should sit two finger widths above your eyebrows, the straps should come under your ears and you should be able to open and close your mouth comfortably.
If your head tends to sweat, look for a helmet with vents.
LIGHT OR BRIGHT A helmet in a light, glittery shade makes you more visible and less likely to be hit on the road. If you ride in the evening, it is helpful to have a reflective helmet: The largest number of bicycle deaths in 2008 occurred between 6 and 9 p.m., according to the highway safety institute.
ONE FALL PER HELMETMost bike helmets are lined with expanded polystyrene foam, typically abbreviated as E.P.S. When you fall, the foam compacts (even though your helmet may look perfectly fine) and so will not cushion a subsequent blow adequately.
Because materials degrade over time, it is wise to replace your helmet every five to seven years. If your helmet dates from 2003 or earlier, buy yourself a new one.
BE A ROLE MODEL Wearing a helmet sets a good example for other riders and for children.
"We see plenty of kids in our trauma center who say they have helmets at home," said Dr. Beth Ebel, director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle. "The biggest problem with kids is getting them to wear their helmets consistently."
Adam Bluestein, who has two children and lives in Burlington, Vt., never rides without a helmet. "I want my kids to know that always riding with a helmet is important. Now when we see people riding without a helmet, it's like seeing someone smoking a cigarette — the kids practically gasp in horror. 'How could someone do something so unsafe?'
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